List of acquisitions made and assets owned by Microsoft Corporation

Here is a cool list of acquisitions that MSFT made till 2002 and the companies in which it has invested over years.

Google Adds a Finance Service

Taking advantage of its access to its medley of related information services from news to blogs, Google on Tuesday introduced Google Finance, a beta web site that offers much of the same data as Yahoo and Microsoft, but also provides information on many privately held companies.

Microsoft acquires Vexcel

Check out more on this at this site.

VeriSign acquires m-Cube for $250M

VeriSign announced an acquisition of m-Cube for $250 million. According to reports, Motricity was competing with VeriSign over the purchase. m-Cube facilitates mobile billing for companies through premium SMS. It racked up $84 million in revenue last year and has companies like CBS, Major League Baseball and Virgin Mobile as customers. More on this over here.

Google to buy Sun?

Daniel M. Harrison has more to tell you about why this seems to be an imminent possibility over here and also here.

Google acquires SketchUp

Google acquired SketchUp. Check out more on this over here.

VeriSign Buys Kontiki, a Broadband Media Firm

Verisign acquired privately held Kontiki, which makes applications for distributing digital media over broadband networks, for $62 million, the company announced on Monday.More on this can be found here.

Microsoft Reveals Origami

The hype had died down 2 days ahead of MSFT drawing its curtains on Origami, courtesy Intel Developer Forum. More on Origami can be found at Engadget’s site.

Google Buys Writely

The search company strikes at Microsoft by acquiring a web-based Word competitor, writes RedHerring.

Microsoft Acquires Apptimum Inc.

Microsoft Acquires Apptimum Inc, a Leading Application Transfer Company.